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The role of IT in the hiring process

By Jim Edwards • Mar 8th, 2008 • Category: IT Management

So where does an operations or support department fall in when looking at the hiring process? It would be nice to think that people will only hire the best and brightest for a given position but as we all know, that doesn’t happen in the profit world let alone in the non-profit world where it’s all about relationships. So where does your facilities department fall in? Facilities? you say, well seriously think about it. If you interviewed a man that was in a wheel chair to replace light bulbs in your auditorium, wouldn’t you need to consider if he was able to complete the job you are hiring him for?



Spiceworks Update!

By Shane Par-Due • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: IT Management, Software

New Features in 2.1
Microsoft Event Log interactive charts and event filtering.
Monitors and Alerts work with Microsoft Events.
Spice Meter. Learn how to fully use Spiceworks. Get your meter to 100%!
Product ratings and reviews for your hardware and software.
Graphics and charts for key network data.
Performance improvements in user interface and network scanning.
Troubleshooting added to the HelpDesk via […]



Going public with Arena using SSL

By Jim Edwards • Jan 20th, 2008 • Category: IT Management, Web Design

This article is brief and short and not designed so much as a how to, but more of a you can do it article….
Well our public ArenaChMS site officially went public yesterday! It’s been 1 year in the making, serveral long nights, a little crying, and some heart to hearts with God about […]



Spiceworks 2.0: The Inventory Module - Part 2

By Jim Edwards • Dec 27th, 2007 • Category: IT Management, Software

Read (Part 1) of this article..
Previously, we looked at a quick overview of what and how Spiceworks 2.0 is. In this installment I wanted to take a closer look at the Inventory module and explain a little how we are using it and how it can benefit your Inventory management. Their is quite a bit […]



Spiceworks 2.0: Freely Managing your workload - Part 1

By Jim Edwards • Dec 20th, 2007 • Category: IT Management, Software

About 9 months ago we discovered that we were having a real problem managing our workload and keeping track of who was doing what. Several times we’d find that staff would send an email to all of the IT department and then we would be falling all over each other fixing someones problems two or […]